Risk Behaviour

District Health Board data:

Risk behaviour

The atlas collects together data on behaviours that pose a risk to health and wellbeing. Some indicators in this collection include confidence intervals, which are represented as a grey line on the bar graph.

adolescent smoking habits

parental attitudes to smoking

quit (smoking) attempts

hazardous drinking

problem gambling

obesity

For "adolescent smoking status" and "parental attitudes to smoking", Auckland, Waitemata and Counties Manukau DHB's were counted together, the results reflect the average over all three areas.

District Health Boards

District health boards (DHBs) are responsible for providing or funding the provision of health services in their district. There are currently 20 DHB's in New Zealand.